“Agreed.”
I looked at the nearest vault, walked up to it and saw it had one of those high tech fingerprint recognition security panels.
I had an idea that would totally help us. I took out my kit and dusted for prints. Wes chuckled when he saw what I was doing.
“And hello hacker number one,” he said with admiration.
Nah, this wasn’t hacking. It went back to my grandiose skills in theft. I got the prints and lifted them with a sheet of cellophane.
I planned to make a mold of Giovanni’s fingerprints, then make something that replicated skin so we could use it to open the vaults.
“It’s mad skills.” I smiled.
Wes grinned back. “I love it. I’m gonna start putting the cameras up. Let’s do this bro.”
Yes, let’s.
I had my fingers crossed that we’d gotten as far as I’d hoped.
If the blueprints were here, I just had to find them.
Somehow, someway…
* * *
“I’m very surprised at the resilience you’re showing,” Giovanni commented.
He’d called me to his office, he wanted to speak to me, tocatch up. That was what he called it.
I was scheduled a night off tonight but I could see the prick working overtime in thought.
I saw Jia earlier. We’d looked at each other. That was it, but I must have been really slipping up because I hadn’t seen Giovanni watching me, watching her.
“What sort of resilience?” I asked, pretending I didn’t know what he meant.
“Jia. I’m amazed you’re staying away.”
“Isn’t that what I was told to do?”
He steepled his fingers and stared at me.
“Yes, indeed… I have a job for you. Means you’ll be doing a late tonight.”
I had to try my utmost best not to protest.
Tonight was supposed to be my night off and I planned to go into the chamber with Wes and the team.
Giovanni’s stupid request couldn’t have come at a worst time.And, it was so obvious it only came because he thought me looking at his daughter earlier might mean I’d try to go to her house.
Mother fucker.
Biting back my fury I plastered a smile on my face and nodded, deciding to play nice. “Sure thing boss.”
The last thing I needed to do was allow the stress to get to me and beat the shit out of him for annoying the fuck out of me.
“It’s another shipment. I need you to accompany Frankie tonight to the warehouses.”
That meant Armand would probably be with Jia tonight. I took comfort in knowing when Frankie was watching her. This whole watching business had happened after the shootout at the casino. Giovanni basically had someone watching her all the time.
